[mlpack] Getting Introduced to the Community

[Ryan Curtin]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:33:41PM +0530, PRAKHAR AGARWAL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Prakhar Agarwal and I would like to introduce myself to the
> developers of this community. I'm (technically) a junior at Birla Institute
> of Technology and Science Pilani. I am well versed with Python, C/C++,
> Machine Learning, PHP and bash. I have been using the mlpack and now I'm
> comfortable with it.
> 
> I was very much fascinated with the concept of Deep Learning  and wanted to
> explore it more and what could be a better way to start off than writing an
> algorithm and seeing it in action.
> 
> I was having a look at the GSoC 2015 ideas
> <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas> page and the
> particular project of Essential Deep Learning Modules
> <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#essential-deep-learning-modules>.
> I
> have some basic information about Belief networks and Recurrent networks
> and have worked on artificial neural networks. I have also tried building
> mlpack from source and writing basic mlpack programs.
> 
> Could you please guide me through where should I look forward that would be
> helpful for the project?

Hi Prakhar,

Since you are interested in neural networks, I would spend some time
taking a look at the code that Marcus and Shangtong have written, both
in src/mlpack/methods/ann/ and in pull request #405.  Other than that,
you might consider taking a look through the list of open issues on
Github and seeing if any of them are interesting to you.  They are
labeled with difficulty, so this should help in finding ones that are
easier for people who aren't intricately familiar with the internals of
mlpack.

Hope that helps -- if not, please feel free to ask more questions. :)

Thanks,

Ryan

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